Literature Program, Irish and Celtic Studies (ICS) Program, Human Rights Program, Historical Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, American and Indigenous Studies Program, and the Social Studies Division Present
Technics of Space: Caricature and Empire on Hogan’s Alley
Monday, March 4, 2019
Olin Humanities, Room 102
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Joshua Kopin '12
PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
Part of a larger dissertation project, this talk makes a connection between the subjects of early comics, which often included immigrants and their children, like the Irish-American Yellow Kid; and political cartoons about immigration and American imperialism from the periods of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Spanish-American War. Drawing on his long-established connection to yellow journalism and noting that, while explicitly Irish, the Yellow Kid is drawn in the visual idiom of anti-Chinese caricature, this talk posits that caricature is a technology of empire and inclusion that, through ideas about immigrants and expansionism that were often clothed in metaphors of childhood, served to differentiate acceptable, if unruly, white citizen subjects from imperial others. PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
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Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102